Comments on: Democratic officials: Obama has settled on Hagel for defense secretaryhttp://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/01/06/democratic-officials-obama-has-settled-on-hagel-for-defense-secretary/
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Sun, 06 Jan 2013 17:02:09 +0000http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=236469#comment-2239198portlandon, he didn’t get Susan Rice. Imagine if the party banded together.
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Sun, 06 Jan 2013 16:35:34 +0000http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=236469#comment-2239168Ordinarily Obama would throw someone like Hagel under the bus. But maybe Obama has concluded that Hagel’s leftish sneering not only satisfies the Democratic nutroots, it appeals to at least some of the dispirited voters who sat out the last election. Hagel is the kind of guy who tells everyone off without having much useful to say, and that’s just the ticket for this kind of president.
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Sun, 06 Jan 2013 16:08:51 +0000http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=236469#comment-2239146Why wouldn’t Obama? He has gotten everything he has ever wanted. Who’s gonna stop him? Republicans? Democrats?
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Sun, 06 Jan 2013 15:30:13 +0000http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=236469#comment-2239111Islamic terrorists will be extremely thrilled by obama’s choice.
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Sun, 06 Jan 2013 15:12:24 +0000http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=236469#comment-2239096Hmmmm….I forsee another lunch-time or weekend “Recess” appointment in the near future…
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Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:57:15 +0000http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=236469#comment-2239085

It looks like President Obama will appoint former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel to be his next Secretary of Defense and could do so as early as Monday.

If Obama appoints Hagel then he will once again be telling Israel, “F*#k you.”

And why not? For all his antipathy towards Israel, Obama still got more than two thirds of the Jewish vote last year.

It tells us that Obama is comfortable with someone who derisively uses the term “Jewish lobby” and “let the Jews pay for it”.

It also reminds us that Obama views Israel, not Iran as the biggest obstacle to peace in the Middle East.

Still, I don’t understand why Obama wants to pick a fight with Chuck Schumer. I guess Obama thinks the Senate will confirm their former colleague.

I’m no fan of Barney Frank but I would love to see Deval Patrick appoint him to the Senate if for no other reason than the pleasure of seeing Frank make Hagel sweat during the confirmation hearings.

Aaron Goldstein an AmSpec blog.

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Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:19:10 +0000http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=236469#comment-2239061Obama’s probably doing this for the uninformed. Hagel has a bogus R next to his name, so the Senate GOP looks unreasonable opposing him. And if they do oppose Hagel, they’ll look racist and vindictive when he starts appointing more crackpots to SCOTUS.

Given the stupidity and gutlessness of most of the Senate GOP, maybe the GOP should save its fights for judicial opponents at all levels–at least appeals and SCOTUS.